Word: caa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...private plane from his own field in Fallon, Nev. to Bishop, Calif. He had no clearance, no pilot's license. When challenged upon landing, he asserted that Civil Aeronautics Administration regulations did not apply to him. His arguments: he had been flying for 20 years, did not use CAA facilities, was not engaged in commerce. CAA inspectors ignored all this, ordered him grounded...
...nonoperating tag on his propeller was a meaningless decoration. Haled last week into Nevada's Federal District Court on eleven counts (each carrying a $1,000 penalty) and threatened with permanent grounding, he was fined $2,500. The Court ruled him subject to CAA regulation even though "the flights in question were not commercial in character and ... no commercial air routes were entered...
About half the couples needed for Alaskan stations will be recruited right in the territory. For the rest CAA is combing the States. The inducements: good salaries (ranging around $6,000 a year per couple), rugged scenery, plenty of fresh air and adventure...
...CAA provides most of their homes, which are the talk of the sourdoughs: wooden houses perched on stilts above the muskeg, equipped with hot-&-cold running water, electric refrigerators, carpets, curtains, dishes. Right outside their doors is the Alaskan wilderness...
...just take what the CAA says don't do-and do it," is Colonel Ford's description of the training of a grasshopper pilot, who comes to Fort Sill with 60 hours of elementary training from the Air Forces...